Casket-handle.



E, R. SARGENT. CASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1909.

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E. R. SARGENT. CASKET HANDLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 25, 1909.

Patented Dec 21, 1909.

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' CASKET-HANDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 21', 1909. Applicationfiled ma as, 1909. Serial No. 498,143.

plates for a'casket handle-,' wiiicli are adapt- To all whom it mayconcern:

Be it known that I, EDwARuR. SARGENT, ed to be secured by screws 13 to acasket,-or of the city and county of New Haven and similar article.State of Connecticut, have invented new designates depending armspivoted to and useful llm rovements in Casket-Hanthe socket plates andsupporting the handle dies, of which t e following is a full, clear, barD, which is provided with the usual and exact description when taken incon core or bar E of wood, metal or other suitnection with theaccompanying drawings, able material. The ends of the handle bar whichform a part thereof. F may be of any suitable design.

This invention relates to casket handles The gripping or central portionof the s5 and more particularly to the construction 0 handle bar isformed, as more particularly the handle bar. shown in Fig. 5, of aplurality of sheet metal.

Handle bars have been formed with a core plates H and I, which arestamped out. in of wood or metal and a superimposed tube substantially Ushape in cross section. Each .15 of metal formed in suitable design.Conof the parts H or I may be formed, .as 7

siderable difiiculty has been experienced in shown more particularly inFig. 3, of five the formation of these tubes and the presfaces, K and L,and when the two parts are out invention consists of the formation of aassembled by inserting the outer faces L of tube or gripping surface bya plurality of the part 1 within the outer faces Kbft he parts securedtogether on their lateral ed es. plate H, as shown more particularl inFig. The parts of the handle are so assembled as 4, the whole grippingportion wil present not to disclose in the ordinary use of the eightsurfaces, or in other words, be of handle that thohandle is made up of aoctagonal form in cross section. These two number of parts. Furthermore,these parts parts, H and I, when so assembled may be 25 may be-formed'asduplicates of each other secured together by soldering or any suitsothat considerable saving is made in the able means, and as theoverlapping part H expense of'manufacture. Again the parts is on thefront of the grippin part of the areso assembled that the lateraledges'overhandle, the line of juncture wi 1 not appear lap and thus'form a peculiar stiffening of to the eye of the user of the handle. As

30 the gripping portion of the handle, al of shown more particularly inFig. 2, the overwhic is more particularly pointed out, tolappin edge Hof the part H appears only gether with other improvements and combifromt e rear, and in an incons icuous way. nations of parts which are setforth and The overlappin surfaces of t e two parts claimed hereinafter.H and l. material y stren then the grip ing 35 Referring to thedrawings, Figure 1 re portion of the handle w ion the ban o ls resents afront elevation ot a casket hand? used, and the two partsmay be formed11! embodying the invention, Fig. 2, an en the same dies as the springin themetal itself larged rear view of one end of the gripping willpermit the outer ed es of one. part to portion of the handle embodyingthe invenoverlap the outer ed es o the other.

4'0 tion, Fig. 3, an end view of the gripping The modification s own inFigs. 6,7 ands portion of the handle, Fig. t, a transverse consists informing each of the two parts, vertical section on line 1-4 of Fig. "1,Fig. Q, and B, so that in cross section each will 5, perspective detailviews of the gripping be slightly more thanhalf of a circle. Here,portion of the handle separated into parts, again, the elasticity of thematerial permits 4:) Figs. 6, 7 and 8, front elevation, perspecthelateral ed esS of one part tos ringover tive view of one-half of the'ipping porand overlap the lateral edges, T, o the other tion, and atransverse vertica section, repart B.

spectively, ofa modified form of the grip- The modification shown in Fi3. 9,10 and ping portion of the handle, and Fi s. 9, 11 showsthe twoparts, U and formed so so 1 and 11, similar views of anothermodificathat when they are assembled the cross section of the grippingportion of the handle. tion of the gripping portion will be sub- In allfigures, similar letters of reference stantially square, the cornersbeingvf lattened represent like parts. so as to permit the lateral edgesof the Referrin to the drawings, the parts desigpart U to overlap thelateral edges X. of

55 nated by the letter A represent the socket the part V. I

